Author Archives: admin The Screener, the Prepper, and the Swabber: Top 3 Roles for MAs at Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing SitesThe COVID-19 pandemic has gone through a strange pattern in the United States, surging to crisis levels in major urban centers like New York and New Orleans, then subsiding briefly before coming back hard and strong in more rural states …  As Medical Assistants Head Back to Work, Increased Infection Control Procedures are Being Added to the Job DescriptionPlenty of medical assistants have been absolutely buried with the demand from COVID-19 treatment in hospitals nationwide. They already know all there is to know about infection control procedures—those procedures are exactly what has been keeping them safe this entire …  Top 5 Things Medical Assistants Who Aren’t On The Front Lines Of the COVID-19 Battle Should Be Doing Right NowWorking in healthcare in America today is a surreal experience for medical assistants. Even as emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country fill up with rasping, wheezing coronavirus cases, other areas in those same hospitals have fallen silent …  With Medical Assistants On The Front Lines Of The Coronavirus Response, Today’s MA Students are Preparing for a Field That May Never Be the Same AgainNo one needs to tell medical assistants about the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States… they are seeing it firsthand, as many show up to work every day to hospitals flooded with patients in respiratory distress. Out … Medical Assistants Save Lives in War Zones and AbroadUntil recently San Diego native Derek Coleman was working as a machinist in a factory. Today he finds himself in a field trauma center outside the city of Mosul in Iraq, one of today’s most active war zones. Speaking about … Chinese Company Releases a Medical Assistant ChatbotWhile medical assistants are an indispensable part of Western medicine, this appears to not be the case in China. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, announced in October 2016 that it had produced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The company named its … Louisiana Workforce Announces Free Medical Assistant Training in the River ParishesThe Louisiana Workforce Commission in partnership with Ochsner Health Systems is offering a free medical assistant training program to the River Parishes. The new training program will give job seekers the opportunity to train for one of the many current … Medical Assistant Recognition Week CelebratedMedical Assistant Recognition Week (MARWeek), which takes place each year in the third full week of October, was developed to honor the efforts of thousands of medical assistants across the United States. It is endorsed by the American Association of … AAMA 60th Annual Conference Brings Awards and Education to Medical Assistant ProfessionalsThe Excel Awards were announced during the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) 60th Annual Conference which was held in Reston, Virginia this past September. The awards recognize recipients in the following categories: Excellence in Publishing, Excellence in Marketing, Promotion, … Michigan is Doing its Part to Meet Growing Demand for Medical AssistantsThe medical assistant field continues to grow at astronomical rates and the state of Michigan is doing its part to help meet the demand. The state offers medical assistant programs at several community and four-year universities. This past July Grand … |
